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Originally Posted by peter12
Rape is a biological imperative. I think it's good that modern societies have said that rape is wrong.
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Of course, that's what I said; we don't base right and wrong on biological imperatives.
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Originally Posted by peter12
I think if polygamy is legalized, you set a very dangerous precedent for our society. It's the institutions that arise out of a society's ethics. Polygyny stems, historically and biologically, from a desire to control male and female reproductive opportunities. As I said before, look at what happens to competing males in the Bountiful community. They are kicked out. This is not consensual, at all, in its true essence.
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Interesting. So in essence society couldn't operate with polygamy in a fair and equitable manner to everyone involved so the opportunity shouldn't be allowed? What if at some point we thought that power structures like Bountiful were uncommon enough that it wouldn't be an issue?